It’s Palm Sunday – and kind of a strange one at that. It’s one of the few Palm Sundays in my life that I am actually looking at palm trees and fronds on the ground. We’re still in Hilton Head…
I returned home from Dallas today. I was supposed to leave about 1:15 this afternoon, but we were advised that the plane had mechanical problems and the flight would be delayed, perhaps as long as an hour. Well before the…
We’ve had a lot of fun with our daughter Jill the last several weeks she has been in town. She came to see the family and to help Kristin with the transition she is going through. Yesterday, she was here at…
You’re probably wondering what these words mean, because they’re not something we recognize from their native Greek roots. But they mean “flesh” and “body”. There are many references to the flesh and our bodies in the Scripture and tonight, I…
I always wanted to be born on February 29th. I just think it is the greatest birthday out the there. But my mother missed it by 10 days. I was born on the 19th. And I think that it was…
These were the final words spoken by Scott Carpenter, the back-up pilot and capcom (capsule communicator) for Glenn’s historic flight fifty years ago today, one day after my 9th birthday on Feb. 19, 1962. The third of seven Mercury astronauts,…
I just chuckled to myself after I hit the “place order” button on Amazon. I hesitate to even write this post because you are going to think that I am absolutely out of my mind. I didn’t want to order…
Well, today, the tents and many of the other temporary structures built for the Super Bowl started to come down; and the news media told us this morning that the downtown streets that have been closed for several weeks would…
No, I’m not starting a new business charging for prayer. Today, I had an early lunch with a friend of mine, a banker, who always insists on paying for both of us. And, as is our custom, I always end…